Headlight stopped working

[FinalD]

So at the weekend I swapped my lights over from one smiley Bosch & one bullseye Bosch to a set of smoked smiley Hellas.

The Hellas had cabin adjust on them but the car doesn't have the rest of the system (it appeared to be duff so I didn't pull it from the doner) so I swapped the manual adjusters from the Bosch units to the Hellas.

I had previously fitted the Hellas and all of them worked fine.

Last night I figured I should probably adjust the beams to ensure I'm only blinding other road users and not low flying aircraft only to find that the drivers side dipped lamp isn't working. I checked the connections, all solid, changed the bulb and it still doesn't work.

I don't know if I knocked or damaged a ground connection or something when changing to manual adjusters, all appeared to be correct and fine though.

Any ideas?

[Brianmoooore]

Fuse would be an obvious place to start.

[FinalD]

Are they fused individually?

Passenger side one works fine, just not the driver side. The main beam works as does the sidelight.

[BenHar]

http://www.e30zone.net/e30zonewiki/index.php/Fuse_Box

Ben

[FinalD]

That's a yes then.

Fuse 14 which is 7.5A...shall check that out tonight before pulling the whole unit from the car. Might well have blown it actually thinking about it as the + cable wasn't plugged into the bulb when I looked at it last night so might have shorted on the - cable/connection.

[daimlerman]

A week or two back I traced an intermitant headlight to a faulty earth connection...
Started at the correct fuse and worked through the system,fitting a new earth wire finally fixed the blighter!

[FinalD]

Just went and had a look, fuse was blown. I think it blew just because the + cable wasn't connected to the bulb last night before I turned them on. Oops.

Typically, I don't have any spare 7.5A fuses at the moment so will need to pick some up tomorrow.

Looks like it was just a muppet error this time.